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Absolutely gutting morning on Hadrian's Wall. No more Sycamore Gap.

We are shocked and desperately saddened to learn that the famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall has been felled overnight, in what appears to be an act of vandalism. We know just how much this iconic tree is loved locally, nationally and by everyone who has visited. We are

NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀 Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

The CHI Steering Committee wants your input on the future format and finances of CHI. Read our post (chi.acm.org/finances-and-f…), consider our proposals (chi.acm.org/finances-and-f…), provide feedback (surveymonkey.com/r/5XDGSCN), and join us for two online sessions. ACM CHI Conference ACM SIGCHI 1/6

Very excited that our TOCE paper demonstrating that #GenAI can pass many University assessments has been accepted: doi.org/10.1145/3633287. The way we assess students will need to change.

Happy to have contributed to this White Paper about the impact of #GenAI on Computing Education.

Animal Computer Interaction Conference Thank you so much for this beautiful award and for the very generous words that accompanied it. 🙏 It is such an honour and means the world to me. I will treasure it forever. ❤️

The OU's societal challenge led to a new physiotherapy device, detailed by Dr. Riasat Islam, Dr. Daniel Gooch, and Prof. Blaine Price in a paper. The Slider aids patients preparing for knee replacement surgery. Read more: ow.ly/j8wS50QsY05

Very proud of The Open University: Computing & Communications colleagues Prof Blaine Price, Immigrant, Daniel Gooch & team for their highly consequential research, empowering patients to monitor their pain. Coincidentally, the work started as a thread in an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded privacy management project over 10yrs ago! privacydynamics.net

‘There’s no point comforting ourselves over #AI and cheating when we don’t know what cheating is’ 👇 …by Jim Dickinson #plagiarism #AcademicIntegrity #GenAI #LLMs wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/th…

Looking forward to sharing our research on adaptive user interfaces for managing privacy with The Open University: Computing & Communications students on #TM111 - Introduction to Computing & IT 1 Based on work with Aki Wijesundara, PhD - e/acc ⭕ Dr. Vikram Mehta Daniel Gooch Prof Blaine Price, Immigrant and Bashar Nuseibeh Thanks to Nigel Gibson 🐝 for the invite 🙏🏽

A group of us are looking into the possibility of a SIGCHI-sponsored HCI+Health conference. If you're working at the intersection of HCI and Health, we would appreciate your feedback on format, interest in participating, and willingness to volunteer! uci.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B…

We are delighted to have won this award, which reflects the positive outcomes that come from multidisciplinary research which focuses on addressing real world problems, drawing on academic expertise, medical insight, and collaboration with patients.

The OU and Milton Keynes Hospital PainPad team won Changemaker/Lightbulb Award at the MK STEM awards! The PainPad is a new and efficient way for patients to conduct more frequent and accurate pain readings through the device. ow.ly/jzci50QKBpq

Happy birthday to us! Sadly, there’s no cake, but today we’re still celebrating 55 years since the OU was established by Royal Charter. Huge thanks to all members of the #OUfamily – we wouldn’t be here without you! #OUCharterDay

New paper led by Daniel Gooch Reflections on using the story completion method in designing tangible user interfaces sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

AI, Law & Legal Training, our fourth Skills Project is led by Francine Ryan Open Justice The Open University & will create resources enhancing knowledge & awareness of #GenAI for understanding legal processes & accessing legal information Gopal Ramchurn Prof. Kim Barker Daniel Gooch

Delighted that we have made our doctoral training materials public helpful for students and supervisors. Take a look - pragmaticphd.com/resources/ - and let us know what you think

Fully funded PhD studentships on computing and IT topics are available. Happy to supervise a range of digital health or digital civics projects.Application deadline: 24th January 2025. www5.open.ac.uk/employment/phd…

Who knew? "Senior scientists spend around 45% of their time on administrative activities relating to the acquisition and management of funding". Submitting applications when I knew the system was broken was my central reason for retiring. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…